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This Egyptian Army ATV is Actually a Polaris Snowmobile With Wheels and a Machine Gun

Listen, I'll never not be one who applauds scrappy ingenuity. I'm a huge fan of it, especially since I've personally relied on that sort of out-of-the-box, I'm-very-broke-and-can't-afford-the-real-thing thinking for as long as I've been alive. But at a certain point, you cross the threshold of "That's brilliant thinking!" to, "What were you smoking?" 

I suspect we're close with this, as this just screams idle hands, loads of hash, and a personal disdain for doing anything the easy way. 

What the hell am I talking about, you ask? Well, fine sirs and madams, what you're looking at here is an "ATV" supposedly owned and operated by the Egyptian army, complete with a very large machine gun mounted ahead of the driver with a gunner behind them. But if you look closely, you'll actually see that it's not an ATV at all. In fact, it's a machine designed for a wildly different climate than the deserts of North Africa. 

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